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take the fingers from your throat my darling for none of this will be worth it

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men will get diagnosed with major depressive disorder and think theyre tortured artists or lost souls or whatever ... women will experience full on psychosis and b like “thats just the way god made me” ...

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when i’m gone don’t cry for me

i’ve waited so long

and now i’m free

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In West Virginia, on 23 January, 1897, 21-year-old Zona Heaster Shue mysteriously died at her home. Her husband, Erasmus “Trout” Shue, called the doctor but when he arrived, Erasmus had already moved her body from downstairs where she died and placed her on the bed after dressing her up. 

Over the next few days, Erasmus behaved quite bizarrely but Zona’s cause of death was determined to be heart failure. A few weeks after her death, her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, requested that the body of her daughter be exhumed. When asked why, Mary Jane explained that over the course of a few nights, Zona’s ghost came to her and confessed that Erasmus had been abusive towards her and had strangled her to death. 

When her body was exhumed, an autopsy revealed that Zona’s neck was broken. Erasmus was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Lena Baker was willing to take any job possible to support her three children. In the 1940s, she was hired by a white grist mill owner called Ernest Knight, who needed a maid and carer to look after him while recovering from a broken hip. Knight was abusive towards Baker and often held her against her will. 

On 30 April, 1944, Knight locked Baker up inside the grist mill and tried to force her to have sex with him. He then produced a metal pipe and began to beat Baker, who, in return, grabbed Knight’s gun and shot him dead. 

She escaped and immediately alerted the authorities of what had happened. Regardless of this, during a time of racial segregation and suppression of African American rights in Georgia, she was found guilty by an all white, all male jury, and sentenced to death. 

On 23 February, 1945, she entered the execution chamber. Her final words were: “What I done, I did in self-defense, or I would have been killed myself. Where I was I could not overcome it. God has forgiven me. I have nothing against anyone. I picked cotton for Mr. Pritchett, and he has been good to me. I am ready to go. I am one in the number. I am ready to meet my God. I have a very strong conscience.” 

In 2005 it was determined that her execution was unjust and she was granted a posthumous pardon, 60 years after she was executed.

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Has anyone else noticed that it's bad

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“I have to walk on eggshells around you” what if i beat you to death

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Ted Bundy’s ‘murder kit.’

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On 24 September, 1984, Norell Sanders was at home with her one-year-old daughter, Deborah, when Deborah’s father and Norell’s estranged boyfriend, Odell Sheppard, showed up to the apartment and began to argue with Norell. Odell then grabbed Deborah and fled from the apartment. 

Weeks later, he called Norell and said he would return Deborah for $2,000, which Norell did not have. The police were not sure how to respond as the couple had not been married and therefore it was unclear as to who had legal custody of the little girl. It was reported that Odell took Deborah to a family funeral in Memphis and this was the last reported sighting on the girl. 

The following year, Odell was finally apprehended and charged with child abduction. He claimed he was innocent and had given Deborah back to her mother. He served one year in prison and was then ordered to bring Deborah to court, which he failed to do. 

He was arrested and sentenced for civil contempt and served ten years in prison. He refused to reveal what had happened to the girl. He was released in 1998 after serving the longest sentence for civil contempt. 

Deborah has never been found and what happened to her remains a mystery.

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This is an old photograph of a legally grown marijuana crop in rural Crittenden County, Kentucky that was taken in 1942. During World War II, the U.S. Government paid farmers in rural Kentucky to raise marijuana for national defense purposes. The marijuana plants were used to make hemp rope. Legal marijuana growing ended at the end of World War II.

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In 1957, Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, became the first animal launched into orbit, paving the way for human space flight, which cost her her life. There were never any arrangements for her return to earth and sadly she died after just a few hours in space due to overheating. The Soviet government originally kept that secret and claimed she was euthanised due to oxygen depletion.

Finally, on 11 April, 2008, a monument to Laika, showing her on top of a rocket, was built near the military research facility in Moscow.

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LaVena Johnson was a very ambitious young girl who enrolled in the military as soon as she left high school, much to her parents dismay. On 18 July, 2005, 19-year-old LaVena called her parents to let them know that she would be leaving Iraq in time to be home for Christmas. Tragically, she never made it home and onset one of the most horrific cases of injustice in modern day history… 

Just eight days shy of LaVena’s 20th birthday, her bloody body was discovered in her tent at a military base in Balad, Iraq - she had sustained a gunshot wound to the head and her death was ruled as a suicide. However, the autopsy report and photographs revealed that LaVena also had a broken nose, bite marks, loose teeth, scratch marks, a black eye and burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals. It was also suspected that the chemical burn was an attempt to destroy DNA evidence from rape.

LaVena’s family and friends were adamant that LaVena would not take her own life. LaVena was only 5′1″ and her service weapon, which she supposedly shot herself in the mouth with, was a 40 inch M-16. It would be physically impossible for somebody of her height to maneuver the weapon into her mouth and shooting. Two ballistic experts reported that the gunshot wound looked too small to be from a M-16 but looked more like it came from a 9mm pistol. 

LaVena’s family continued to fight for justice for their daughter and got in contact with mainstream media. CBS paid for a second autopsy which discovered that LaVena’s neck was broken and disturbingly, that part of her vagina, tongue, and anus had been removed - something the military autopsy took no note of. 

Despite CBS and ABC both putting a lot of money and time into investigation the story, they suddenly dropped it. It was alleged that they were contacted by the military who threatened they would stop buying ad space. As it stands, LaVena’s death is still ruled as a suicide and her family are still fighting for justice.

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The last messages sent from Eddie Justice, an accountant, to his mother. Eddie was hiding in the bathroom of Pulse nightclub in Orlando when he sent these terrified text messages to his mother. Omar Mateen barricaded himself inside the nightclub in the early morning hours of 12 June, 2016. Once inside, he senselessly murdered 50 people and injured another 50+. Not long after these texts were sent by Eddie, Mateen stormed into the bathroom where he was hiding and shot him dead.

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The first photograph shows a smiling 18-year-old Suzanne Marie Collins. She had just completed U.S. Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island in August 1984. She had aspired to become part of the first class of female Marine fighter pilots and it seemed as though she was well on her way but tragically, fate had something else planned. Something much more sinister….

On 11 July, 1985, Sedley Alley, a man married to a member of the military, abducted Suzanne as she was jogging at the Naval Air Station Memphis in Millington, Tennessee, where she was stationed. He bundled the unsuspecting Suzanne into his car and drove her to Edmund Orgill Park. Once here, he unleashed his unrelenting attack - he beat her with his fists, smacked her head off his car, savagely bit her breast, and then he grabbed a stick and shoved it up her vagina with such force that it impaled her lung. 

Following the brutal attack, he disposed of the body and made his way home. Unbeknownst to Alley, two Marines heard Suzanne’s scream as she was abducted and followed the sound in which they believed it was coming from. As they arrived near the scene, they witnessed Alley fleeing in his car and reported it to base security personnel. 

Unsuccessful in searching for the car, they returned to the barracks. They were shortly called back to identify Alley’s car which had been stopped by officers. They confirmed that this was the car they had earlier seen fleeing but since nobody had been reported missing and no body had yet been found, they had no choice but to allow Alley to go back home. That was until the following morning, when the discarded and bloody body of Suzanne was discovered. 

Alley was immediately arrested and readily confessed, although he claimed he had killed her accidentally when he ran her over. However, her autopsy revealed that she died from blunt force trauma caused by repeated beatings. Alley was charged with first degree murder and sentenced to death. This death sentence was carried out in the electric chair on 28 June, 2006.

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good days only serve as relief